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• Two Democracy’s | Badri Raina

  20 June 2020, by Badri Raina

  Borrowing from the first famous sentence of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, “it is a fact universally acknowledged” that most aspiring young Indians love and wish to be in America for the following clutch of reasons: the economic opportunities it offers; the strength of its Institutions that respect merit; its adherence to law and order; the cleanness of its habitats; its military might, and its innovative technological predilections. Never mind that most of these attributes (…)

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  China - India Clash in Ladakh - Communist Party of India (CPI) statement on June 17, 2020

  20 June 2020

  The Communist Party of India (CPI) expresses its deep condolences to the families of officer and jawans, who sacrificed their lives in protecting our borders on the night of 15th June.

• Corona exposes the dilemma of the left parties in voicing the workers miseries | Arun Srivastava

  20 June 2020

  The corona pandemic has triggered the sharpest and deepest political and ideological contraction in the history of Communist movement in India. What according to the Communist Manifest was once solid is seen losing its identity and evaporating into air.. The pandemic has completely turned irrelevant the structural concept of Globalisation’ and even Neoliberalism.

• China moves to impose a law that would criminalize dissent in Hong Kong | Wilfred Chan

  20 June 2020

  Twenty-three years after the end of colonial rule in Hong Kong, the Chinese government has announced that it is imposing a long-dreaded “national security” law on the territory, effectively criminalizing dissent. Just as stunning as the content of the law is how it will be passed: Instead of moving through Hong Kong’s legislature—which is already rigged in favor of the city’s unpopular pro-Beijing establishment—the law will be enacted unilaterally by China’s top lawmaking body, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee. It’s a declaration of both the law’s incontestability and Beijing’s total authority over Hong Kong and its people.

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  McCarthy Era propaganda poster ’Artists Are Dangerous’

  20 June 2020

• Annexation Will Officially Turn Israel Into an Apartheid State | Zehava Galon

  20 June 2020

  by Zehava Galon
  In Israel they don’t like to talk about apartheid. That’s a harsh word. It recalls shameful memories of contemptible cooperation with an unjust regime, and other memories from the times when we were the ones who were not allowed to be part of institutions because of inferior status.
  We have a hard time with apartheid – the word, not the policy. It has what they call connotations. But apartheid is the precise word for the annexation that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (…)

• Remembering Antonio Gramsci | Lorenzo Alfano

  20 June 2020

  by Lorenzo Alfano
  It’s late at night on Turin’s Via dell’Arcivescovado. A man with a Southern accent shows up at L’Ordine Nuovo’s office, insisting on speaking with the lead editor. For L’Ordine Nuovo is not only the workers’ daily, but also the paper of Antonio Gramsci.
  Yet the political climate here in Turin at the start of the 1920s is tense — every night, factory workers do shifts on guard duty to defend the building’s doors. Everyone expects that sooner or later the fascist squads (…)

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  Unmasking Marx in Post-Covid Masked Society | Pratip Chattopadhyay

  20 June 2020

  This is a review essay on Professor Sobhanlal Duttagupta’s edited Bengali volume titled ‘Marx 200:Ekusher Bhabna’ (Marx 200: Thinking for Twenty-first) published by Ananda Publishers, Kolkata in January, 2020. ISBN 978-93-89876-56-7, Pages, 255, Price INR 400.

• Karnataka Government Decides To Honour Savarkar: A Collaborator of The British Rulers & Muslim League | Shamsul Islam

  20 June 2020, by Shamsul Islam

  The Karnataka government led by a senior RSS whole-timer, B.S. Yediyurappa is going to honour Hindutva icon, VD Savarkar by naming two of the newly built major flyovers in Bangalore and Mangalore after him. There was a huge uproar against this decision of the RSS-BJP government as many pro-Kannada organisations with opposition parties and liberal-secular organizations questioned the logic to ignore so many freedom fighters, social reformers and others from within the state.

• Provincial University – Pray, What is That? | Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha & Subhendra Bhowmick

  20 June 2020

  by Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha & Subhendra Bhowmick
  2019 Nobel Winner in Economics, Abhijit Binayak Banerjee in one of his recent interviews with a leading Bengali daily, while recounting his own student life, pointed out how our elite academic institutions in various metropolitan cities in India are populated largely with students belonging to privileged social groups who hail mostly from well off families and their privileged positions restrict their scope to embed them with the (…)